Ferruginous Hawk / Buteo regalis
Eared Grebes in their mating dance
White-crowned Sparrow, Tadoussac, Quebec
Best Western Hotel, Leamington, Ontario
Wild Turkey, Pt Pelee, Ontario
Mourning Dove, Pt. Pelee, Ontario, Canada
Baltimore Oriole, The Tip, Pt Pelee, Ontario
Watching the waves at The Tip, Pt Pelee, Ontario,…
Trillium
Chipping Sparrow, Tadoussac, Quebec
Birders at The Tip, Pt Pelee, Ontario
The Tip, Pt Pelee, Ontario
Purple Finch male, Tadoussac, Quebec
The ubiquitous American Robin, Pt Pelee
Daffodils growing wild, Pt Pelee
Tree Swallow, Pt Pelee, Ontario
Small, sleepy Bat, Pt Pelee, Ontario
Dutchman's Breeches, Pt Pelee
That's quite the nest, at Pt Pelee, Ontario
Pretty in pink
A new addition
The beauty of iridescence
Killdeer nest
Beauty
Wilson's Snipe
Dutchman's Breeches, Pt Pelee, Ontario
Dryad's Saddle Fungus (?), Pt Pelee, Ontario
American Robin, Pt Pelee, Ontario
Old barn on drive to Pt Pelee from Toronto, Ontari…
So many old barns between Toronto and Pt Pelee
White-throated Sparrow, Tadoussac, Quebec
Dutchman's Breeches / Dicentra cucullaria, Pt Pele…
At the base of a tree, Pt Pelee, Ontario
Trillium with a visitor, Pt Pelee, Ontario
American Goldfinch male, Tadoussac, Quebec
Wolf Willow / Elaeagnus commutata
Calliope Hummingbird / Selasphorus calliope
Great Horned Owlet
Great Horned Owlet
Yellow Lady's-slipper / Cypripedium parviflorum
Yellow Warbler female, Pt Pelee, Ontario
Yellow Warbler / Setophaga petechia
Fungus (Dryad's Saddle?), Pt Pelee, Ontario
Bluebird bling
Tall grass, Pt Pelee - Phragmites
Eastern Kingbird
Cinnamon Black Bear, Waterton Lakes National Park,…
Prince of Wales Hotel, Waterton
A favourite view, Waterton Lakes National Park
Rufous Hummingbird
Hummingbird at feeder
Barn Swallow
Barn Swallow
Horsetail strobilus
Sparrow's-egg Orchid / Cypripedium passerinum
Blue Flax / Linum lewisii
American Wigeon
Orange Peel Fungus, Peyto Lake
Bow Lake, Alberta
Clark's Nutcracker / Nucifraga columbiana
Bow Lake
Blue Himalayan Poppy
Swainson's Hawk take-off
Western Grebes paired up
Yellow-headed Blackbird / Xanthocephalus xanthocep…
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Remembering winter
Goodbye, winter - so glad you are gone!
They're back : )
Another Pelican treat
Common Merganser male
Togetherness
Almost missed, but gratefully seen
American Kestrel, Panasonic FZ200
They call this spring?
American Kestrel, Nikon B700
A rural "winter" scene
American White Pelicans, Nikon Coolpix B700
American Kestrel
A bright and cheery American Robin
Old barn in spring snow
American White Pelicans with my old Panasonic FZ20…
American White Pelicans, zoomed with Nikon B700
Western Meadowlark
The challenges of being a birder
One of yesterday's Great Horned Owls
Ring-necked Pheasant male / Phasianus colchicus
Hooded Merganser male
Black-capped Chickadee
New birding blind in a local park
Sleepy Great Horned Owl
One of two Coyotes
Great Gray Owl
Common Redpoll
Pileated Woodpecker
On the way to Canmore - seven Swans a-swimming :)
Great Gray Owl
Winter beauty
Red Fox (just for the record)
Twice the beauty
Bighorn Sheep mom and youngster
Pileated Woodpecker seen in Canmore
Far, far away
Great Gray Owl on the hunt
Great Gray Owl, highly zoomed
Boreal Chickadee
Great Gray Owl hunting
Prairie life in winter
Great Gray Owl, watching and listening
Great Gray Owl #2
Great Gray Owl #1
A beautiful day in Weaselhead
Common Redpoll female
With more big storms to come
Coyote crossing the frozen Elbow River
A view from yesterday
Plain, but welcome
Winter's beauty
Who am I?
Rusty and abandoned
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Old barns in the foothills
Sharp-tailed Grouse
The ever-present Black-capped Chickadee
Deer on the horizon
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Once was home
These will be the last photos I post for maybe a couple of weeks, as I am taking a much-needed break!
This was a lovely find two days ago, on 3 May 2018. A bit different from many of the old, abandoned buildings I come across.
Three days ago, I was so torn as to whether or not to accept an invite from my friend, Pam, to take a drive SE of the city. I really, really wanted to go, even more so as I have barely been out for ages. However, I am running out of time to get certain things done, and also I was concerned that if I slightly moved in a 'wrong' way, my knees would give way or my rotator cuffs and lower back would become even more painful. Not what I need, especially right now. In the end, I decided that, yes, I would go after all, and I am so glad that I made that decision.
We started off at Frank Lake, a place that is very familiar to both of us. We knew that Western Grebes and Eared Grebes were being seen and we both hoped they would be there that morning. A pair of Eared Grebes gave a little performance of part of their mating dance. The photo I posted this morning was taken with the Nikon B700 - in fact, I gave up using the FZ200 for pretty well all my photos at Frank Lake and just kept my fingers crossed that the new B700 (with far more zoom, but less sharpness) would give me at least a few photos that were good enough to keep. I am still having the problem of image shift on some of the shots - photo jumps upward, downward or to one side, cutting off parts of birds and resulting in ridiculous compositions. At Frank Lake, I could rest both elbows on a very sturdy window ledge, making it impossible for normal, self-created camera shake to happen.
Though I have quite a few photos of Eared Grebes on my Flickr photostream, I think I only have one previous photo of a Western Grebe. I don't see them very often and when I do, they are so far away. They were far away when we were there, but we were able to watch as they did a bit of their mating dance, including when each bird gathered a beak full of wet, rotting plant material and they went face to face in an amorous gesture. These birds also swam off separately, giving us a few chances for further shots. Still at the blind, we were so lucky when a pair of Eared Grebes came close enough to capture a shot or two of part of their mating dance.
By the way, the blind is surrounded by lake and flood water! Parts of the boardwalk were under 5" or 6" of water, through which we had to wade. If you do go, make sure you concentrate, or you might find yourself swimming in the lake! Elsewhere in the whole SE area, there was a lot of water in some of the fields, creating what I suspect will turn out to be only temporary sloughs.
A few of the other birds we saw two days ago at various places included a few dozen Tundra Swans; plenty of Northern Shovelers; several Western Meadowlarks; a Great Horned Owl and her little white, fuzzy owlet, sitting on a distant nest; and a Ferruginous Hawk female lying down in her nest. Of course, the usual suspects included Canada Geese, Mallards, and so on.
When it came time to leave Frank Lake, I had assumed we would then start on the drive back to the city. Instead, Pam surprised me by saying that we would go further south - and further south we definitely went! Made such a great day. Thanks so much, Pam, for this treat - greatly appreciated.
This was a lovely find two days ago, on 3 May 2018. A bit different from many of the old, abandoned buildings I come across.
Three days ago, I was so torn as to whether or not to accept an invite from my friend, Pam, to take a drive SE of the city. I really, really wanted to go, even more so as I have barely been out for ages. However, I am running out of time to get certain things done, and also I was concerned that if I slightly moved in a 'wrong' way, my knees would give way or my rotator cuffs and lower back would become even more painful. Not what I need, especially right now. In the end, I decided that, yes, I would go after all, and I am so glad that I made that decision.
We started off at Frank Lake, a place that is very familiar to both of us. We knew that Western Grebes and Eared Grebes were being seen and we both hoped they would be there that morning. A pair of Eared Grebes gave a little performance of part of their mating dance. The photo I posted this morning was taken with the Nikon B700 - in fact, I gave up using the FZ200 for pretty well all my photos at Frank Lake and just kept my fingers crossed that the new B700 (with far more zoom, but less sharpness) would give me at least a few photos that were good enough to keep. I am still having the problem of image shift on some of the shots - photo jumps upward, downward or to one side, cutting off parts of birds and resulting in ridiculous compositions. At Frank Lake, I could rest both elbows on a very sturdy window ledge, making it impossible for normal, self-created camera shake to happen.
Though I have quite a few photos of Eared Grebes on my Flickr photostream, I think I only have one previous photo of a Western Grebe. I don't see them very often and when I do, they are so far away. They were far away when we were there, but we were able to watch as they did a bit of their mating dance, including when each bird gathered a beak full of wet, rotting plant material and they went face to face in an amorous gesture. These birds also swam off separately, giving us a few chances for further shots. Still at the blind, we were so lucky when a pair of Eared Grebes came close enough to capture a shot or two of part of their mating dance.
By the way, the blind is surrounded by lake and flood water! Parts of the boardwalk were under 5" or 6" of water, through which we had to wade. If you do go, make sure you concentrate, or you might find yourself swimming in the lake! Elsewhere in the whole SE area, there was a lot of water in some of the fields, creating what I suspect will turn out to be only temporary sloughs.
A few of the other birds we saw two days ago at various places included a few dozen Tundra Swans; plenty of Northern Shovelers; several Western Meadowlarks; a Great Horned Owl and her little white, fuzzy owlet, sitting on a distant nest; and a Ferruginous Hawk female lying down in her nest. Of course, the usual suspects included Canada Geese, Mallards, and so on.
When it came time to leave Frank Lake, I had assumed we would then start on the drive back to the city. Instead, Pam surprised me by saying that we would go further south - and further south we definitely went! Made such a great day. Thanks so much, Pam, for this treat - greatly appreciated.
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